ADVICE WELL TAKEN

Dasha Ilina (in collaboration with Supisara Burapachaisri)

The Netherlands 2023
Installation with a collection of videos, publication, postcards

In dit project, dat bestaat uit een publicatie en een video, documenteert Ilina wat zij techlore noemt: ‘volkskennis’ over de complexe en ondoorzichtige functionaliteiten van de moderne technologieën die ons omringen. De kunstenaar snijdt kwesties aan die te maken hebben met onze data en onze privacy, de trucjes waarmee we onze apparaten repareren en de verklaringen die we vinden voor technologische mysteries. Voor dit project verzamelde Ilina volksverhalen over digitale verlossing: alledaagse vertellingen over antropomorfisering, hacken en het afsnijden van bochten. Ze laten zien hoe gewone mensen doen wat ze kunnen om controle te krijgen over technologie. Dasha Ilina ontwikkelde ADVICE WELL TAKEN tijdens haar EMAP-residency bij IMPAKT in mei en juni 2023, in samenwerking met Supisara Burapachaisri.

This work was realised within the framework of a European Media Art Platform residency program at IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] with support from the Creative Europe Culture Programme of the European Union.

Dasha Ilina

― Kunstenaar

Dasha Ilina is a Russian artist based in Paris. Through the employment of low-tech and DIY approaches, her work questions the desire to incorporate modern technology into our daily lives by highlighting the implications of actually doing so. Her practice engages the public in order to facilitate a space for the development of critical thought regarding social imperatives for care of oneself and others, privacy in the digital age, and the reflexive contemporary desire to turn to technology for answers. She is the founder of the Center for Technological Pain, a project that proposes DIY solutions to health problems caused by digital technologies for which she has received an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica. Ilina’s work has been exhibited at institutions such as Centre Pompidou (FR), MU Artspace (NL), Gaîté Lyrique (FR), Hartware Medienkunstverein Dortmund (DE), NeMe (CY), as well as various talks, workshops, and performances held internationally. She is also the co-director of NØ SCHOOL, a summer school that focuses on critical research around the social and environmental impacts of information and communication technologies. Photo: Erica Jewell

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